Osbournes: Reloaded Searching for Ozzy’s BIGGEST Fan

The Osbournes’ brand-new variety show for FOX (Osbournes: Reloaded) is searching for the biggest, baddest Ozzy Osbourne superfans who are willing to do anything (and we mean ANYTHING!) to meet him. We definitely want to push the boundaries. Think eating bugs, licking belly buttons, getting pierced, shaving your head, getting tattooed, etc. If you’ve always dreamed of meeting Ozzy Osbourne and know that you’d be willing to do whatever it takes, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking for HUGE fans from Southern California. If this is you, please shoot an email to producer Brian Updyke (brian.updyke@gmail.com) with your name, age, location, a recent photo, and a brief paragraph explaining why you’re the ultimate Ozzy superfan and deserve to meet your idol.

(Via www.hardrockhideout.com.)

Y&T To Record First New Original Material In A Decade

Y&T have issued the following press release:

Happy holidays to our fans around the world, from all of us in Y&T! We loved spending our busiest year so far this decade with those of you who came to the 2008 shows, talked with us in person, and communicated with us online through our forum. We care what you have to say and love hearing from you. We never forget or take for granted that the success of the shows we do each year are in large part made possible because of the dedication of you great fans who come out to see our shows every year. As long as you keep coming, we’ll keep playing.

We want to give a very special thanks to those who work so hard for us in front of and behind the scenes each and every year. Our great crew–Tom, Chrys, Rolf, and our amazing manager Jill. You keep us moving forward and running smoothly, ensuring we always come across the best we can. We’re blessed with your hard work, dedication, great talents, class, and most of all–your friendship.

And now we look ahead to 2009, which is to be a banner year for Y&T. Not only will it be our 35th year anniversary as a band, but we will be starting the year out by immediately getting into the studio to write for the first new original material Y&T record in over a decade. And depending on our tour schedule, and with any luck, we will be shooting for a late 2009 release.

We look forward to kicking some serious ass and sharing this upcoming monumental year with as many of you as we can, as we head back out to tour around the world again.

Thanks, again, for an amazing year!
Dave, Phil, John, Mike

Y&T live dates:
December 31 – Redwood City, CA – Little Fox Theatre
March 19 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
March 20 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – Coach House
March 21 – Redondo Beach, CA – BriXton
April 17 – New York, NY – BB King Blues Club
April 18 – Springfield, VA – JAXX
April 19 – Virginia Beach, VA – Steppin’ Out
June 26/27 – Balingen, Germany – Bang Your Head!!! Festival

Courtesy of www.meniketti.com

(Via Everyone’s Blog Posts – Hair Metal Mansion.)

‘You’re a bitch if you don’t show up on stage when it says nine o’clock’

Think what you like about Gene Simmons – but one thing you can’t accuse the Kiss bassist/vocalist of being is an unprofessional live performer.

Yesterday Simmons gave a keynote address today at the fifth annual Billboard Touring Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

During the address, Simmons stressed the duties of being a live performer.

Simmons also intimated that Kiss might go on the road with Queen next year – which we here at the Clog reckon would be a killer combination.

‘I don’t care if you’re Axl Rose, forgot to tie your shoelaces or your father molested you when you were three – you’re a bitch if you don’t show up on stage when it says nine o’clock,’ he said, drawing loud applause from the audience.

‘You need to have the integrity and self-respect to respect the promoter who paid you the money in advance, the hall and the people who makes all our lives possible,’ Simmons continued.

Referring to Kiss as the ‘juggernaut of all rock’n'roll brands,’ Simmons said the band are currently working out future tour details.

‘We’ve been talking with [manager Doc McGhee] about Europe and then doing a year-long tour maybe this coming summer, but we’ll see,’ Simmons said.

‘Kiss and Queen, that would be a smash. That would kill. So far [it's] 50/50.’

Read more at Billboard.com here.

Meanwhile, returning to the subject of Axl for a sec, Guns N’ Roses’ hyper-delayed new album Chinese Democracy is available for streaming on GN’R’s MySpace page here.

At the time of writing this post, the title track alone had been played a total of 745,880 times…

STOP PRESS: Chinese Democracy has broken all records after being streamed on MySpace.

The album received around 25 listens a second up until today (November 21) after being streamed in full on the site yesterday (November 20).

Up until 4pm (GMT) today the title track had been played over 826,000 times, with the total amount of plays all the album tracks have received adding up to over 3 million.

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(Via Classic Rock.)

Wham, bam… thank you, Sam!

Former Montrose/Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar has a brand new solo album out today – Cosmic Universal Fashion!

Cosmic Universal Fashion marks the first official release for Loud & Proud, a Roadrunner Records imprint focusing on established artists.

In a Clog/Classic Rock exclusive, you can hear a full-on stream of Hagar’s new album here.

And in further Sammy-style news…

The new album’s title track and first single, Cosmic Universal Fashion, was written as an online collaboration between Hagar and a young Iraqi rock’n'roller by the name of Steven Lost.

Released via Sammy’s website RedRocker.com and already a YouTube sensation (it says here), the very topical video was produced in the same spirit as the classic Van Halen video for Right Now, and strikes a timely chord with the recent US Presidential elections.

(Via Classic Rock.)

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